Chapter 69 Free
"Of course, come in." Shen Lu helped her move her luggage into the room and poured her a glass of water.
After calming down for a while, Shen Lu asked her what was going on and why she suddenly came to see her so late at night. Li Qingqing just stared blankly with empty eyes and said nothing.
Shen Lu guessed that her current situation might be related to Lu Yan, but since she didn't want to talk about it now, she didn't ask. She would tell it naturally when she wanted to.
After taking a shower, Chen Lu asked her if she wanted to sleep with him. Her apartment was just a small one-bedroom apartment with a 1.2-meter-long bed in the bedroom and a sofa that was as long as one person in the living room. Li Qingqing said she wanted to think about something, so she rested on the sofa.
Li Qingqing lay there for a while, her mind still swirling. Lu Yan's final look had left her restless for a long time. Perhaps he never wanted to see her again? As Li Qingqing thought about this, tears mixed with soft sobs fell onto the freshly made sheets.
After crying enough, she sent a message to Wei Qingming, saying that she wanted to take half a day off tomorrow morning. She didn't tell him the reason, but Wei Qingming still agreed readily.
The next morning, Shen Lu woke up to find that Li Qingqing had already prepared breakfast for her. She had made some white porridge, fried some pancakes, and mixed some refreshing side dishes.
"Come and have dinner." Li Qingqing said to Chen Lu who was sleeping with a dazed look on his face.
Shen Lu scratched his hair, which looked like a chicken coop, and walked over with a confused look on his face. Li Qingqing looked normal, and seemed to be much better.
"Are you okay?" Shen Lu asked.
Li Qingqing pulled away and sat down, "Let's eat first."
Shen Lu was still a little confused, “…I’ll go brush my teeth first.”
After washing up and sobering up a little, Shen Lu asked her solemnly: "Do you want to tell me?"
Li Qingqing lowered her head and drank the porridge, and said to Shen Lu in an extremely calm voice: "I'm free, Lulu."
Shen Lu looked at her blankly: "What's the matter? Did you go to jail without telling me?"
Li Qingqing curled her lips slightly, and then returned to her dead-as-life face. After a moment of silence, she put down her chopsticks and explained everything to Shen Lu.
Including how she met Lu Yan, how she got together with him, and how they broke up now.
Shen Lu listened to her story from beginning to end as if she were listening to a novel. Her mouth was wide open the whole time, and the porridge she hadn't swallowed flowed back into the bowl.
It took her a while to recover from Li Qingqing's story: "...Li Qingqing, you are really brave. You usually look honest, but you actually did so many big things behind my back. It turns out that being beautiful means you have the capital to be willful. But..." Shen Lu rolled his eyes, "...Why does your story make me look like a supporting role... the kind of role that the heroine's best friend in the novel plays, you know?"
Shen Lu is a loyal reader of domineering CEO novels, and she is very familiar with Li Qingqing's story.
Li Qingqing sighed: "If I could give you my role, would you be willing?"
Shen Lu said without hesitation: "I do."
Li Qingqing: “…”
"Just think of it as a relationship. Mr. Lu is so handsome, so many people want to sleep with him but can't."
"You mean I don't know what's good for me." Li Qingqing couldn't help but roll her eyes at her.
"I think so." Shen Lu glanced at her and joked half-seriously.
Li Qingqing was almost self-doubting after hearing what she said. She asked weakly, "Do you think I'm being hypocritical?"
Chen Lu patted her shoulder and suddenly became serious again: "Qingqing, don't say that to yourself. Everyone is different, pursuing different things, and naturally having different feelings about the same thing. I understand you. You care more about things you have earned through hard work, and you also care more about things like dignity and personality. There is no right or wrong in this, it's just that everyone has different levels of acceptance. Although I say I envy you, in my heart I still respect you for being able to make such a choice."
Li Qingqing was moved by Shen Lu's rare moment of seriousness. She actually envied Shen Lu's personality. No matter what she did, she could always be very self-sufficient and never exhaust herself. She didn't know if this personality was innate or if it was also influenced by family factors.
After the two finished their meal, Li Qingqing took the initiative to clean up the dishes and came out of the kitchen after washing them. Shen Lu was about to go out to work.
Li Qingqing wiped the water off her hands with her apron, and said to Shen Lu with an embarrassed look: "...Lulu, can I stay here with you for a few days until I find a job..."
Before she could finish her words, a bunch of metal objects were thrown towards her. "These are my spare keys. Take them." Shen Lu had a look of understanding on his face.
She is indeed a good friend. "Thank you, Lulu. I will make you something delicious when I get home tonight."
"Then Miss Snail, please clean up my room as well." Shen Lu was not polite to her at all.
"Oh, and, and, I heard that you Qingjian Pavilion has released a lot of new products. If it's convenient, bring some back for me to try." As she said this, she winked at Li Qingqing.
Of course, Li Qingqing was completely satisfied. After Shen Lu left, Li Qingqing cleaned up her room according to her "requests" and even washed her clothes. After finishing all this, she felt quite relaxed. She actually enjoyed housework and didn't feel at all disadvantaged or tired. She wondered if it had something to do with her childhood habits.
After finishing everything, she sat on the sofa in the living room, took her phone, and clicked on the familiar blue-gray avatar.
She had never looked at his profile picture carefully before, and this was the first time she clicked on the full picture to see it.
This is a world of ice and snow. The deep blue sea is set against the glaciers that glow slightly blue. It seems like a desolate place that does not belong to the earth. It is a world that Li Qingqing has never seen or experienced.
Maybe she would never be able to reach Antarctica in her lifetime, just like she and Lu Yan would never be together. Not to mention that they had such an unpleasant quarrel yesterday...
Thinking of this, Li Qingqing's heart palpitated slightly again. However, she had been entangled in the relationship between the two for many days, and now she was able to completely calm down.
She silently clicked the upper right corner and deleted Lu Yan's contact information.
After doing all this, seeing that it was almost time, Li Qingqing packed up and went to the store.
…
Wei Qingming looked at the red scratch on her neck without showing any surprise. He knew that they must have had a very unpleasant argument last night, but he didn't ask directly. Even if he was not very perceptive, he knew that she must be very uncomfortable now. Wei Qingming suddenly felt a little sorry for Li Qingqing. Such a beautiful girl was born in such a family. Her parents only knew how to take from her. No one ever really cared about her feelings. She had no choice but to do things all the way.
During her free afternoon break, Li Qingqing wanted to send a message to Mu Xingyi about this matter. He should still be waiting for her reply, right? But after editing the message, she didn't send it in the end.
Wait a couple of days to rest and then tell him in person, otherwise it would be quite rude to say it on the phone.
After being busy for several days, Lu Yan never contacted her again. It seemed that since that night, the two of them had completely separated. This result was not what Li Qingqing expected. She thought he would pester her like before, but he didn't. It was as if he had completely disappeared from her life.
Li Qingqing couldn't tell whether she felt lost or something else, but she was always uncomfortable. She felt that she had hurt Lu Yan, and the hurt was deep...
*
The day before the holiday, Mu Xingyi took the initiative to come to her.
He still parked the car at the door of Qingjian Pavilion without calling or sending her a message in advance.
When Li Qingqing saw him, he was leaning against the car body smoking. She remembered that he didn't seem to smoke before.
"Qingqing, are you off work? Sorry... I couldn't help but come to you first this time. What do you think about that matter?" Mu Xingyi immediately put out his cigarette when he saw her.
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